ASB Blocking woocomm product reviews

Hi @martinrtr

the problem is a conflict from ASB and your theme.

This is what is happening. The theme is using jQuery validator (https://jqueryvalidation.org/) and this is the code starting it:

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {$("#commentform").validate({rules: {author: {required: true,minlength: 2},email: {required: true,email: true},comment: {required: true,minlength: 10}}});});

It looks at the element with the “name” “comment” and if there aren’t at least 10 characters it spits out an error message under the textarea. Wich is strangely hidden from your theme with this CSS:

form label.error {
	display: none !important;
}

Our spam trap is switching the real comment form and a honeypot. But we only switch the ID with JS and not the name. The name stays as “comment”, which is why the validation JS is checking the honeypot which is hidden and therefore empty, generating an error message which was hidden by the theme …

Now we know the problem, but what could be the solution? I didn’t found an easy way to change the behavior from the validator.

Maybe you could remove the “required” rule from the honeypot. Something like that:

jQuery( "textarea[name='comment']" ).rules( "remove", "required" );

Unless you use a filter to change it, WordPress will not allow empty comments/reviews, if this helps.

I will try to contact the author if we can find a better solution, but at least you now know what can be done to fix this!

All the best
Torsten

I found two themes in the official theme directory with the same problem:

Elasta and NicheBase
https://wpdirectory.net/search/01FTZH6GABGCR1CTHG89D6ESPD

Disabling the rule for the honeypot seems to be the best way to solve this issue.
If needed you can re-add the rule on the correct element again.

With something like that:
jQuery( "textarea[id='comment']" ).rules( "add", "required" );

All the best
Torsten